Hello!
I have outgrown my small home-lab server and looking for a good bang for the buck upgrade.
The current server is a X10SLH-F-O with 16GB ram and a E3-1271 v3. Been optimizing this thing for years pushing in more and more VMs, LXCs, dockers etc but now i have finally reached its limits. One can only squeeze in so much on 16GB ram and 4 cores. To continue with my next home project i need to find some upgrade parts.
So i ventured back here to STH since i have been out of the server-game for a good while now trying to get information on whats the best hardware to replace it with. Im looking for more cores and ram since those are the limiting factors. I don't have any big requirements, 64 (or 128 gb ram) and at least 14 cores would be my goal.
I see the E5 v4's have gone down considerably in price on ebay. Are those (for example the E5-2680 v4) the go-to CPU nowdays if one wants good bang for the buck on ebay? Are there any good priced motherboards i should keep a look out for?
Thanks!
I have outgrown my small home-lab server and looking for a good bang for the buck upgrade.
The current server is a X10SLH-F-O with 16GB ram and a E3-1271 v3. Been optimizing this thing for years pushing in more and more VMs, LXCs, dockers etc but now i have finally reached its limits. One can only squeeze in so much on 16GB ram and 4 cores. To continue with my next home project i need to find some upgrade parts.
So i ventured back here to STH since i have been out of the server-game for a good while now trying to get information on whats the best hardware to replace it with. Im looking for more cores and ram since those are the limiting factors. I don't have any big requirements, 64 (or 128 gb ram) and at least 14 cores would be my goal.
I see the E5 v4's have gone down considerably in price on ebay. Are those (for example the E5-2680 v4) the go-to CPU nowdays if one wants good bang for the buck on ebay? Are there any good priced motherboards i should keep a look out for?
Thanks!